5 Other Worrying Things That Happened While We Were Focused On Kashmir
While everyone was glued to the TV and their phones, listening to Shah explain and defend the move in the Parliament and trying to understand what this means, five other important news items didn’t get the attention they should have. The Lok Sabha passed the controversial Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2019 on Monday by a voice vote amid noisy protests by some opposition parties.…
The BSE’s benchmark index Sensex on Monday crashed over 418 points to slip below the 36,700-level, a near five-month low, as massive global sell-offs and growing political uncertainties in Jammu and Kashmir rattled investor sentiment.… Several people in Assam, who have been included in the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC), were issued fresh notices to attend re-verification hearings, according to reports. … The Unnao rape survivor has been airlifted to the AIIMS Trauma Centre and her condition remains critical.…
Around two lakh jobs have been cut across automobile dealerships in India in the last three months as vehicle retailers cut manpower to tide over the impact of the unprecedented sales slump, according to a statement by industry body Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA).…
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- This shows what years of RSS training does, says Rahul Gandhi slamming ML Khattar for sexist ‘Kashmiri girls’ remark (Aug 10, 2019, Financial Express)
https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/haryana-cm-ml-khattar-stokes-new-controversy-says-now-we-can-bring-kashmiri-girls-for-marriage/1671811/ - BJP Workers Excited to Marry Fair Girls From Kashmir, Says UP MLA (Aug 7, 2019, The Wire)
https://thewire.in/women/vikram-saini-bjp-kashmir-article-370 - Kashmir: Scrapping Article 370 “Unconstitutional”, “Deceitful” Says Legal Expert A.G. Noorani (Aug 5, 2019, Huffington Post)
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/kashmir-article-370-scrapping-constitutional-expert-reacts-noorani_in_5d47e58de4b0aca341206135 - “Authoritarianism”, Says Historian Ramachandra Guha As Article 370 Ends (Aug 5, 2019, NDTV)
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/historian-ramachandra-guha-on-article-370-like-imposition-of-emergency-of-1975-2080591
